The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-02-24
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employed. In great cities, and under the
new social and economic conditions, it is
hardly possible that it should but there is
nothing to prevent the kindly man or woman
from putting the widest and highest inter-
probation upon his or her own duties, while
recognizing other peoples rights. The diff
Guilty with the majority is that they demand
the patriarchal service, while taking every
advantage of the needs of those they employ,
and deliberately Sinking patriarchal respon-
sibility. Less generosity, mere justice is the
need of the hour. Nothing is more common
than the willingness to give IS of the $50
which has been unjustly gained or withheld.
Pay what is due, and let every man and wo-
man be his or her own almoner
In the meantime, if talk was work there
would be no difficulty in having plenty of it
done. Never was so much said upon sub
ject-never was there more difficulty In find
ing those who have been properly trained to
any kind of work. The individual worker
has given place to machinery and corpora
tions; if the latter have no souls the former
have no recognizable bodies, and re-
quire only a little experience, no train
ing or education. General knowledge
is undoubtedly more diffused, but the
special ignorance Of to-day would put to
shame the middle ages. The state needs to
come to the rescue, since trades will not
admit of learners, and the efforts made by
individuals are after all but drops in the
bucket
The talk may not, however, be so fruitless
as it seems if it educates public opinion to
growing necessities. Our system of public
schools has grown into cumulative provision
for the children of the rich or well to do,
instead of aids to the development and train
ing of the poor. If an effort is made to send
the children to the primary school-and it
must be remembered that the cleanliness, the
decent clothing, the regularity, all require
effort on the part Of those whose habits are
often the opposite of cleanly and regular
there is nothing subsequently to supplement
the three RS and make the girl OF boy more
useful in the home or in the shop.
At a recent meeting of the New York
alumne of such colleges as Vassar, Wellesley,
the Boston university, the University of
Michigan, Cornell and others, the young
women discussed the question of employment
for educated women, outside that of teaching,
which is overstocked They had with them a
woman job printer and woman dentist, the
only representatives of these occupations in
New York who are masters, not journeymen.
They found that architecture, real estate and
business of various kinds offered fair oppor-
tunities, provided the requisite preparatory
training was obtained and the work con-
Quoted on true business principles.
There must be some love of work for works
sake by those who would succeed in it; and
while women can never hope to compete with
men on their own ground of acquisition and
appropriation, there is world Of hand in
dustry open to them, in which, though there
may be less of possible profit, there is in
finitely more of real achievement and enjoy
ment. Machine labor must always present q
certain uniform and monotOnous character
hand work alone is capable Of natural di,
versity and expression. Skilled work Of this
kind always commands its price, and many
women have made an Independent position
by becoming the centers of such industries.
|, Organized industry is inevitable in these
days of rapidly growing populations and
sharp competition; the question is shall it be
organized by industry itself, for it's own
benefit or shall this industry be employed
for the benefit and profit of others3
People with or without an idea press to the
crowded cities when all they need is to dig
and build at home Every city was once a
waste, once hamlet, once a little village,
once town of moderate size and proportions
unknown beyond its own limits Instead of
adding to this overgrowth, create centers of
industry in your own town and neighborhood.
| Train your own workers, foster home indus
tries, develop home resources. All over the
country isolated women are begging to know
in what profitable way they can use their
leisure hours-an hour snatched now and then
from house work, the care of children or the
labors of the farm. Singly they can do moth
ing that would do more than add the merest
occasional and uncertain pittance to their re-
| sources; but if some wise and energetic
woman would combine these neighborhood
forces in the raising of silk, in the produc-
| ton of a single vegetable-say cabbage OF
onions, for which the region became
famous-industries would be built up
like that of cheese and fruit canning by
men A jam as well known as Scotch mar
rnalade or English raspberry jam would
make the fortune of district; and what is il
to prevent another from establishing a repu-
tation for hand knitting, investigating mod.
ern methods, looking up best patterns and
| materials, ana utlllZng Une LABOR OF old and
young in diversity of beautiful and useful
articles? Industry is to go forward, not back.
| Organization is its source of strength and
progressive development. We are not to
spend our force fighting the inevitable or be.
wailing that which is gone, not to return; but
use the energy we possess to assist the march
of events and keep our place in the ranks OF
we shall inevitably fall by the wayside or
bring up the inglorious rear; and the woman
of the future is not to do either.
JENNY JUNE.
War Abroad Seems Inevitable.
According to the most recent advices, hos.